Exeter, City Of, CA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Exeter, City Of serves about 11,169 people through 3,493 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Tulare County, California. EPA system ID: CA5410003; phone on file: 559-592-3318. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Exeter, City Of's lead record
That is up 9.3 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Exeter, City Of is 11 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Exeter, City Of compares
Of the 2,884 California systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 30 are over 15 ppb right now and 215 have gone over at some point. Exeter, City Of's 11 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in California and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Tulare County
90 other systems share Tulare County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Exeter, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cws - Visalia | 153,522 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tulare, City Of | 72,241 | 0 (not detected) |
| Porterville, City Of | 63,487 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dinuba, City Of | 27,641 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lindsay, City Of | 12,659 | 0 (not detected) |
| Farmersville, City Of | 10,243 | 1.3 ppb |
| Orosi Public Utility District | 8,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodlake, City Of | 7,918 | 0 (not detected) |
| Earlimart Pud | 7,679 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cutler Pud | 6,200 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Exeter, CA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Exeter, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.